PHP Malware Problem
Posted October 24th 2013 02:38 am
While working with the WePay API, I needed to get some clarification with a PHP function and decided to reference the PHP documentation at php.net. Little did I know that Chrome had some different ideas for me this morning:
This seemed very odd to me. I mean, I understand that php.net has some malware-type code on it if it is classifying PHP code as malware. Even the URI that I referenced was directly to php.net/print_r, so there wasn't any URI misdirection or rewriting or anything like that, so I am very confused.
I looked into the problem that Google provided:
That wasn't very helpful, but it did provide an insight to the issue.
I don't know why Google decided that php.net contained malware since over 100 million sites use the language, with at least 3x the amount of developers on a per-day basis?
Has anybody else experienced this kind of issue? Was my version of Chrome just derping up?
Update (2013-10-25 09:13 AM): Slashdot covered this error in particular in a discussion forum on their website. Apparently, it was a bit of compromised and altered Javascript that caused Google to flag the site.
This seemed very odd to me. I mean, I understand that php.net has some malware-type code on it if it is classifying PHP code as malware. Even the URI that I referenced was directly to php.net/print_r, so there wasn't any URI misdirection or rewriting or anything like that, so I am very confused.
I looked into the problem that Google provided:
That wasn't very helpful, but it did provide an insight to the issue.
I don't know why Google decided that php.net contained malware since over 100 million sites use the language, with at least 3x the amount of developers on a per-day basis?
Has anybody else experienced this kind of issue? Was my version of Chrome just derping up?
Update (2013-10-25 09:13 AM): Slashdot covered this error in particular in a discussion forum on their website. Apparently, it was a bit of compromised and altered Javascript that caused Google to flag the site.